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CraigM_17826
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Feb 19, 2014

Datagroup issues on multi partitioned BigIP

Hi,   We have run into a issue. Our cloud provider has provided us two partitions on a Experion BigIP. We use one partition for production work, the other is used for testing/development work, for...
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CraigM_17826
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Feb 19, 2014

Hi all,

 

Ok, just saw this which goes some way to explain some of the things we saw, but not exactly because we do not have any of our datagroups in common, but it seems too much of a coincidence. Will go ahead and make the iRule changes.

 

From https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.class.ashx

 

**Note that starting in v11, any data-groups that are configured in a partition other than Common must be referenced by /Partition_Name/Data-Group_Name, even by iRules configured in that partition. Data-groups referenced only by name are implicitly presumed to be /Common/Data-Group_Name. **

 

Craig